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MAN PROPOSES BUT GOD DISPOSES

This Proverb statement tells that whateverhis will power, efforts and intellectual potentialities, there is a limit to his abilities and there is some supernatural power – God - to deters and its end Soainst man’s proposal

People very often use this state their conversation Man can place before himself a lofty objective and can strive hard to achieve it by putting forth all his efforts and other possibilities But there is a limit to man’s abilities It has been well said There is a supernatural power that deters and that power God shapes the end of our objective too Man can only propose to achieve so and toil himself towards the achievement Even the achievement itself is not in his hands Of course the ancient Greek critic - Heraclites - says, "Man is the architect of his destiny"

Shakespeare, in his tragedy plays too, does not bring in fate or God as a power deters He introduces the clement of chances that turns the course of the play Anyhow, there is some pohich shapes the end and so it is very apt to say - Man proposes God disposes